As we enter the New Year I encourage two exercises: Look back to see where your business ended and look forward to plan for the future. Looking back on the year, reflecting if you will, should be thoughtful. What did you hope to accomplish in your business? Did you...
In the early ‘90s I was working for a design firm as part of the administrative team. I remember my mentor Barb year after year procrastinate the annual performance review process. Writing reviews for all 30 employees was a struggle – her least favorite duty if I...
After years of considering the Minnesota Transportation Alliance’s DC Fly-In, attending this year was perfectly timed. The conference was centered on the new IIJA funding information and how projects were selected, as well as other opportunities for the municipalities...
I have worked as a liaison between members and the Central CERT agencies on multiple certification issues. As noted in a previous blog, mentoring our AWC members through certification has always been a function here. So many of our members joined because of meeting...
This week’s blog is more of a “Where’s Waldo” for what has been happening behind the scenes at AWC this summer. A “Where’s Barb” if you will. Often Summer is my slow season – when you all are busy, I have less to do. This year that isn’t necessarily the case, but I am...
In my Federal Reserve council meetings in 2020, I told the Governors that our industry was working but we were going to be hurting in years to come and to please save us some relief. My first meeting with a member on pandemic related price escalation was in February...
